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Antal Fekete, Gold, and Central Banks

2021-03-10

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2021-03-10

On the fourteenth of October 2020, Antal E. Fekete, the Hungarian-Canadian economist who saw himself as a monetary theorist following the tradition of Carl Menger, died in Budapest. Behind him was an eventful and fruitful life which was quite typical of the crazy last century. His experiences eventually filled Fekete with dark forebodings for the current century.

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Nonviolent Solutions to Social Problems

2021-03-10

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2021-03-10

Bob discusses three separate items all related to nonviolence: (1) Gene Sharp’s work, (2) Bob’s old dream of how to topple a tyrant, and (3) the winners of the Louis CK contest. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Gene Sharp’s book, From Dictatorship to DemocracyThe trailer for the documentary “How to Start a Revolution”Sharp’s list of 198 methods of nonviolent actionThe original Louis CK clip that inspired Bob’s...

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The Economics and Ethics of Government Default, Part II

2021-03-08

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2021-03-08

Audio Mises Wire
The economic analysis of repudiation applies to the debt of all levels of government and to all countries. The central question is not how big the government is or how much it owes, but rather whether the debt is funded by taxes.

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Playing Games with Stocks

2021-03-07

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2021-03-07

The GameStop saga—can we call it an insurrection?—wants easy heroes and villains. Both are available. The populist version of the story goes like this: a few thousand angry gamers, colluding via the now infamous WallStreetBets subreddit, brought at least one powerful hedge fund to its knees.

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FLS: Andrew Moran performing Dreams at Dubrek Studio’s

2021-03-06

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Andrew Moran performing a cover of Dreams by Fleetwood Mac at our new live sessions for 2021 at Dubrek Studio's in Derby. In collaboration with Derby Sound Community Radio Organized by Fusion# Filmed by Oolay Photography Recorded by Saffell Records

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FLS: Andrew Moran performing I Want You at Dubrek Studio’s

2021-03-06

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Andrew Moran performing I Want You at our new live sessions for 2021 at Dubrek Studio's in Derby. In collaboration with Derby Sound Community Radio. Organized by Fusion# Filmed by Oolay Photography Recorded by Saffell Records

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Rothbard Week: 5 Great Things About Murray

2021-03-06

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2021-03-06

Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss five reasons why Rothbard's work is so memorable. From his fearlessness in the face of opposition, to his commitment to peace and decency, Rothbard provides us with a model of principled scholarship.

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Public Schools Refuse to Open. Give the Taxpayers Their Money Back

2021-03-05

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2021-03-05

In many school districts across the nation, public school teachers still don’t want to go back to work. Private sector workers have long been hard at work in kitchens, at construction sites, and in hardware and grocery stores. Meanwhile, from Seattle, to Los Angeles, and to Berkeley, California, Teachers' Union representatives insist they simply can’t be expected to perform the on-site work in the expensive facilities that the taxpayers have long...

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Panel and Q&A Session w/ Murray N. Rothbard and Joseph T. Salerno

2021-03-03

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From the very beginning of the US, there were battles over central banking—with Thomas Jefferson leading the pro-gold standard, anti-central banking forces, and Alexander Hamilton championing easy money and an early version of the Federal Reserve. Under President Andrew Jackson, central banking was uprooted. lt wasn't until 1913 that a coalition of bankers and politicians were able to establish the Federal Reserve System.

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Stagflation Cometh

2021-03-03

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2021-03-03

A gentleman who does work for us sent me a text recently saying the price of his supplies has increased 20 percent, so he wants to increase his monthly fee 10 percent. It was a nice way to ask, and I said sure, especially given that he’s willing to take a haircut on his labor to make the increase more palatable.

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Murray Rothbard on War and “Isolationism”

2021-03-02

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2021-03-02

Q: Why, in your view, is isolationism an essential tenet of libertarian foreign policy? A: The libertarian position, generally, is to minimize state power as much as possible, down to zero, and isolationism is the full expression in foreign affairs of the domestic objective of whittling down state power. In other words, interventionism is the opposite of isolationism, and of course it goes on up to war, as the aggrandizement of state power crosses...

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Prof. Thorsten Polleit redet klartext – APOKALYPTISCHE AUSMAßE!!! Der große LOCKDOWN-SCHOCK…

2021-02-28

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Videoinhalte: Banken Deutschland, Sparkassen Deutschland, Wirtschaft Deutschland, Finanzen Deutschland , Geld Deutschland , Kapital Deutschland, Aktien Deutschland , Börse Deutschland , Immobilien Deutschland , Politik Deutschland , Medien Deutschland , Gold, Goldmünzen, Silber, Edelmetalle, Bitcoin, Kryptowährung, Währungskrise, Währungsreform, Finanzcommunity, Finanzpolitik, Finanzmarkt, Banken, Finanzcrash, Eurocrash, Bankencrash, Geldanlage,...

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Japan’s Well-Fed Zombie Corporations

2021-02-28

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2021-02-28

Japan: Equity-to-Asset Ratio by Enterprise Size
The corona crisis has intensified the discussion about the zombification of the economy; enterprises have become more dependent on government bailouts, loans, subsidies, short-time working benefits, and loans from central banks. Governments around the world claim the measures to be only temporary.

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The PRO Act Is Not Just a Union Handout—It’s an Assault on the Freedom of Association Itself

2021-02-28

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2021-02-28

On February 4, 2021, Democrats in the House and Senate introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Like many names in Washington, this one is an Orwellian misnomer that does the exact opposite of what it claims to be doing. If passed, the bill, which is basically a union wish list, would radically transform the nature of the labor market in the US with numerous sweeping and heavy-handed changes.

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Bulls, Bears, and Beyond: In Depth with James Grant

2021-02-27

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2021-02-27

James Grant is editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, which he founded in 1983. He is the author of nine books, including Money of the Mind, The Trouble with Prosperity, John Adams: Party of One, The Forgotten Depression, and more recently Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian.

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Deutschland bricht gerade zusammen Extreme Folgen kommen, hier die Fakten

2021-02-27

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Thorsten Polleit (* 4. Dezember 1967) ist ein deutscher Ökonom. Er ist Chefökonom der Degussa Sonne/Mond Goldhandel, Partner der Polleit & Riechert Investment Management LLP, Präsident und Gründer der deutschen Abteilung des libertären Ludwig von Mises Institute und Honorarprofessor an der Universität Bayreuth. Er tritt für eine marktwirtschaftliche Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsordnung ohne solche Störungen ein.

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Want More Entrepreneurship? Embrace Long-Term Legal Stability.

2021-02-26

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2021-02-26

Audio Mises Wire
Prudent economic calculation becomes more difficult as legal and regulatory regimes are subject to frequent changes and political upheaval.  Original Article: "Want More Entrepreneurship? Embrace Long-Term Legal Stability." This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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The Greatest Thing the Roman Empire Ever Did Was Go Away

2021-02-25

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2021-02-25

The Roman Empire is often presented as the fabric of Western civilization. The languages, laws, religion, mores, and implements of the Western political imaginary come in large part, in one way or another, from Rome. The Roman Empire has been rebooted time and again by invaders and latecomers, from the Ostrogoths to Charlemagne to Mussolini; transferred (in reality or in rhetoric) to Byzantine, to Moscow, to the Habsburgs, and even to Washington,...

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Why Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuits Are Garbage

2021-02-25

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2021-02-25

Dominion Voting Systems is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for $1.3 billion. This comes in the wake of other Dominion lawsuits against Trump advisors Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. All are accused of lying about Dominion’s supposed complicity in using the company’s vote-counting software to favor presidential candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

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The Drive for State and Federal Protective Tariffs in Early America

2021-02-23

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2021-02-23

Every depression generates a clamor among many groups for special privileges at the expense of the rest of society—and the American depression that struck in 1784–1785 was no exception. If excess imports were the culprit, then voluntary economizing could help matters, and the press was filled with silly fulminations against ladies wearing imported finery.

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